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20th Anniversary iPhone to Feature Custom 'Micro-Curved' OLED Panel

That's a good way to make the phone way more expensive without adding or improving any useful features.
Battery life, weight, processor speed and efficiency, camera quality, robustness, scratch resistance, phone/wifi/satellite reception, storage, ram, all matter much more than a fancy curved screen. I'd rather have a phone that is technically and in usability improved and cheaper than having a fancy screen.
 
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CATiNTHESTORE said:
Personally, I would be happy with full screen even without all of this front facing cameras and Face ID sensors. Just give me full screen and scanner in power button. That’s it . I don’t care about how I will unlock my phone: Face ID or Touch ID, - just don’t care, as I don’t care about front facing cameras… Front facing cameras are silly thing on the phones … For the meetings you use your Mac or external camera setup. “Calling on the go” just use your regular call, in like 95%cases it is just silly FaceTime conversation about nothing . It is my subjective opinion, so it’s what it is.
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Partially agree. However for many people front facing cameras are a good way to keep up with family and loved ones who don't have a computer or don't sit in front of a computer all the time. It's much easier to get my 80+ yo relatives to use a phone with facetime then to get them to boot up a computer and select a program to start facetime.
 
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I wonder if this “polarizer-free” OLED display will have PWM to dim the brightness or if this will be a step forward for those who are sensitive to it.
 
I don't think bezel-less is the way to go. People need a grippable area that doesn't activate upon holding it. And almost everyone uses a case, so that is a necessary 1-2mm of size covered anyways. Interesting tech, but sounds like poor human-machine interface.
 
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Next it'll have side capacitive buttons that light up & the OH will rip me that apple are copying the best phone she ever had - HTC - from 13 years ago, I honestly never hear the end of it.
 
For various reasons, I always law my phone face down when sitting in on a table or whatever, and I like having a raised lip around the screen. This sounds terrible...plus, where do you grip it?

I know several here don't use a case, but close to 90% do. We'll see......
 
There would need to be a point to having the screen wrap around like the mockup in the original post. And as someone else mentioned in this thread, what are they going to do about a case? Or is Apple just preparing for more claims through AppleCare for damaged iPhones that did not survive a small little tumble? I like a thin bezel and would be cool to go edge to edge with no bezel, but wrapping around to the side now loses physical buttons and we saw how that worked for the MacBook Pros with Touch Bar. So no physical buttons, no case or a case and lose any side button support at all with a case. Foldable phone would be great, don't think I would buy a display that wraps around unless Apple figured out some amazing feature that I can't even comprehend at the moment.
 
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For what benefit? Also, the people who use a case (88% of users) will cover part of the display now? Solution is search of a problem. Don't see it happening and these stories talking about it coming are just wasting people's time.
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I agree with you here except that I think Apple could still release it. The AVP showed us that “practicality” is not near the top of the list of criteria these days at Apple.
 
Haha. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 from 2017 that has a screen like that. I still keep it around to use as a music player because it has a headphone jack.
 
Radin.Y said:
Companies release special edition products all the time. This device could have potentially been “a special iPhone to celebrate 50 years of Apple.” Not necessarily 20 years of iPhone.
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Except that it’s supposed to release in September 2027, which would be 18 months after Apple‘s 50th anniversary, so that would make absolutely no sense.
It doesn’t even sound like an anniversary phone at all, it just sounds like the next iPhone Pro for 2027. All of the supply chain analysts and stuff have no idea how the phone is going to be marketed so they are just guessing with the whole ‘20th anniversary’ angle, but Apple has really never done that in the past.
Even during the event in 2017 for the iPhone X, Apple didn’t mention the iPhone’s 10th anniversary or anything of the like even once.

This just sounds like the regularly scheduled iPhone Pro screen redesign that happens once or twice every decade, last time in 2022 with the first dynamic island, and then in 2017 with the first notch.
In 2027 the iPhone Pro will get a curved screen with a smaller cut-out, pretty normal expectations.
 
Radin.Y said:
Companies release special edition products all the time. This device could have potentially been “a special iPhone to celebrate 50 years of Apple.” Not necessarily 20 years of iPhone.
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Some companies do, but Apple doesn't do it that often. There have been a few exceptions, but there was no 'special edition' for 10 years. There was the iPhone X, except it wasn't marketed as an anniversary model, just the newest design. I suspect this iPhone 20 will be the same.

Based on what I've been reading so far, I'm going to skip this model. My 16 Pro should last a number of years.
 
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OK, so if we get the curved, no bezel design, it'll either be very breakable, or will have to put a case on it? Which will ruin the whole look, anyway. Sometimes they don't think Apple or some people consider with the phone actually looks like in real life, once you put a case on it, because you HAVE to put a case on it. Also, I'm not sure how screen protector would work. Putting on a tempered glass screen protector has become a must to protect your phone the last 10+ years. Maybe there will be a lot of weird clear case designs.

I'll be technically due for a new phone in 2027, but I'm also debating trying to see how long I can keep my 16 Pro working. The longest I've ever gotten an iPhone to last is 3 years, but I'm trying to go at least 4 this time around. Apple would really have to impress maybe beyond their whole normal marketing hype.
 
They are not going to make it. They should’ve had a 19 version and pad things out. I’m not sure why they were averse to a 19.
 
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OK, so if we get the curved, no bezel design, it'll either be very breakable, or will have to put a case on it? Which will ruin the whole look, anyway. Sometimes they don't think Apple or some people consider with the phone actually looks like in real life, once you put a case on it, because you HAVE to put a case on it. Also, I'm not sure how screen protector would work. Putting on a tempered glass screen protector has become a must to protect your phone the last 10+ years. Maybe there will be a lot of weird clear case designs.

I'll be technically due for a new phone in 2027, but I'm also debating trying to see how long I can keep my 16 Pro working. The longest I've ever gotten an iPhone to last is 3 years, but I'm trying to go at least 4 this time around. Apple would really have to impress maybe beyond their whole normal marketing hype.
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3 years? What do you do it to it?! Lol
 
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